Dryer for mushrooms - to help the hostess

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Mushroom pickers, going to the forest, do not think about what they will do with two buckets of selected mushrooms, boletus with boletus. Collected agaric mushrooms, saffron milk mushrooms, chanterelles, milk mushrooms and mushrooms will go for s alting - everything is clear with them. But tubular mushrooms will require drying, and not just drying, but a qualified approach, thoughtful, unhurried implementation of the whole process, which will result in several kilograms of high-quality dried mushrooms. To do this, you need a mushroom dryer - a fairly simple device.

Of course, few people have equipment for drying mushrooms by sublimation at home, and besides, this technique is far from perfect and does not give an odorous mushroom, remarkable in its natural elasticity. Freeze-dried mushrooms are hard, tough, brittle and, of course, tasteless. The same is obtained when using factory-made mushroom dryers. The shopslittered with all sorts of "Squirrels", "Dry winds", "Wonderwomen" and "Winds". The price of these sophisticated devices is 2-4 thousand rubles, and the mushrooms from them are such that it is just right to throw them away and go back to the forest. It's all about the haste of "Squirrels" and "Wonderful Girls", which are equipped with powerful heaters. The passport loudly announces: "our mushroom dryer will dry your mushrooms in a few minutes." The speed of drying is given as an indisputable advantage, but mushrooms and berries do not tolerate rapid drying, they shrink, hide from the heat and eventually die. Therefore, mushrooms should be dried using the old-fashioned method, when mushrooms with berries were laid out on a wide Russian oven and dried there for two weeks and one day. Or a dryer for mushrooms and berries should be based on natural drying in the sun and under the breeze.

But not everyone has a Russian stove, now there are more and more gas stoves in dachas. And that means that you need to make such a device that will be your faithful assistant from year to year in the drying of mushrooms collected in the forest. For effective uniform drying, four rules must be observed. Mushrooms are cut into pieces-cubes measuring 2.5 by 2.5 centimeters. Sliced mushrooms are laid out in an even layer so that the pieces do not climb on top of each other. The dryer for mushrooms, the design of which we will discuss later, should be located under the wall of the house, on the side where the breeze always blows. You need to install the dryer at a height of 80 cm from the ground, under a high canopy. And the last is gauzea curtain that will cover the mushrooms from flies.

The dryer for mushrooms is quite simple, you can do it yourself. You will need two skeins of fishing line 0.8 mm, four wooden bars with a section of 40 mm, 1200 mm long, and four bars 50 mm thick, 800 mm long. In addition, you need to stock up on 30 mm galvanized stainless nails for stretching the fishing line and 110 mm nails for connecting horizontal bars with vertical posts. We drive carnations along the entire length of the horizontal bars in neat rows so that the hat does not reach the wood by 10 mm, and there is a distance of 15 mm between the carnations. After all four bars have even rows of columns, you can connect the bars to the racks. We apply the end of the bar (carnations up) to the rack, at a distance of 80 cm from the edge, and drive in several long nails. We do the same with the rest of the bars. The result should be a square frame with legs.

Do-it-yourself dryer for mushrooms will turn out well if, at the next stage of manufacturing, you correctly stretch the fishing line between two opposite sides of the frame - so that you get parallel rows of stretched fishing line. Then we stretch the fishing line between the other sides of the frame. At the same time, the end of the fishing line can be alternately passed through perpendicular rows, “one through one”. In this case, interlacing will result. But you can also pull over the existing rows. Next, it remains to install the finished drying under the wall of the house,fill with chopped mushrooms and cover them with a gauze curtain. The whole structure will be blown by the breeze, warmed up by the sun, and in a few days you will get magnificent dried mushrooms.